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Letter "C" » chimes
«I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!»
Author: Alan Jay Lerner
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Librettist,
Lyricist)
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Keywords:
bells,
chime,
chimed,
chimes,
church bell,
ding,
dinging,
ding dong,
dong,
on time,
pull out,
stopper,
whopper
«In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock (Westminster Chimes) will hear the tune over a million times.»
«Among the Round Tablers [at the Algonquin Hotel],Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily.»
Author: John Mason Brown
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Critic)
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Keywords:
Algonquin,
chimed,
chimes,
gaily,
grandfather clock,
hotel,
seeming,
Sherwood,
spaced,
The Tick,
tick
«There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.»
«But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.»
Author: W. H. Auden
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Dramatist,
Editor,
Poet)
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Keywords:
began,
chime,
chimed,
chimes,
city,
clocks,
deceive,
In the City,
The City,
The Clocks,
whirr
«Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music»
«Mortals, that would follow me, / Love virtue, she alone is free, / She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime; / Or if virtue feeble were, / Heav'n itself would stoop to her.»
«Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Keywords:
childish,
chime,
chimed,
chimes,
Coleridge,
lull,
lulled,
lulling,
lulls,
nurse,
verse,
Wordsworth
«We have heard the chimes at midnight.»